Julianne Moore's children's book, Freckleface Strawberry, illustrated by LeUyen Pham (Bloomsbury, $16.95), features a 7-year-old girl who's "just like everyone else" except for her red hair and "something worse FRECKLES!" Back home in Manhattan after shooting the film Blindness in Brazil, Moore, 46, talks with USA TODAY about being an author, an actress and a mother.

As natural as it is for a 16-year-old schoolgirl to dream big dreams, it's just as unnatural to have those dreams spread around the world within minutes of being uttered. Such is the life that Michelle Wie and her parents have chosen, however, that a dream that otherwise would be told to the bathroom mirror, or to a best friend in the cafeteria, instead goes out on the wires.

When reporters and editors at The Times-Picayune of New Orleans learned Monday that they had won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its after math, on hand in the newsroom was a delegation from the journalism school at Louisiana State University in nearby Baton Rouge, which became the newspaper's home for six weeks after the storm.

The staffs of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans and The Sun Herald of south Mississippi captured Pulitzer Prizes for public service on Monday for chronicling the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina despite life-changing damage to their own homes and workplaces.